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At the Union College Board of Trustees meeting on Feb. 9, Rich Reiner, Executive Vice President of Adventist Health System (AHS) and President/CEO Multi-State Division, announced Union College will be receiving a $2 million gift from AHS. Adventist Health System, a Florida based health care provider that operates 45 hospitals in 10 states including Colorado and Kansas, has given Union College $2 million to create a permanent endowed chair for a professor in the Division of Business and Computer Science.

Demolition of Jorgensen Hall began with a goodbye ceremony on Feb. 9. The building housed the science (and later) mathematics programs at Union from 1946 to 2014.

Following the regular meeting of the Union College Board of Trustees, a group of board members, employees, students and friends gathered on the gray, moist afternoon of Feb. 9 to say a last goodbye to Jorgensen Hall.

The stately brick building across the street from the College View Church has served as the home of the Division of Science and Mathematics since 1946 until professors and student moved across campus to the all new 55,000 square foot Krueger Center for Science and Mathematics.

Chairman Emeritus Jay Dunlap accepted Union College's first Community Partnership Award on behalf of Union Bank in a ceremony on Jan. 29.

When Union College set out to show their appreciation to the many organizations that have supported it’s mission in the Lincoln community, they found none more supportive than their neighbor across the street, Union Bank and Trust.

Heather Boulais, a member of the Gymnaires, Union College's acrobatic gymnastics team, was injured during practice on Jan. 14.

[UPDATE 2:00 p.m. - Jan 29] The Union College Gymnaires returned to practice last week with a modified training program, while continuing to support and pray for their injured teammate, Heather Boulais.

For the next month, Union College students and the Lincoln community can eat at Union Market, the college’s dining hall, and help hungry Lincolnites at the same time.

Now through February 20, “Kellogg has partnered with Union College to encourage students to make the choice that makes a difference by participating in the ‘Eat.Share.Prosper.’ program,” said Jennifer Jaacks, a spokesperson for Kelloggs, in a news release.

Joe Hofman launched a recycling initiative on campus that now saves Union tons of trash.

Meetings with the garbage collectors, meetings with the college president, presentations to the faculty and students, more meetings with deans and resident assistants, speeches at colloquiums—Joe Hofmann is busy. A nursing major also working toward minors in leadership and psychology and an associate degree in Pre-Allied Health, Hofmann is also the resident assistant for village students at Union, s Student Center supervisor and a columnist for Union College’s newspaper, the Clocktower.

Union College students prepare to spread the bread to the homeless residents of downtown Lincoln.

Standing in line with two or three carts full of peanut butter, jelly, bread, water, apples and bananas, Veena Tharayil attracted a lot of attention. A 19 year-old sophomore studying general studies, Tharayil has always been inspired by her mother’s compassionate and giving spirit. This helped form Veena’s passion for the homeless that fueled her to gather a bunch of friends and give sack lunches to over 150 people on Lincoln’s streets one Sabbath afternoon in October.